tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post3072820098682960916..comments2017-09-23T16:58:13.939-07:00Comments on Mental Musings and Meltdowns: My Response to the Orlando ShootingTonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737992571206851964noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-29763430198087166402016-07-07T18:48:42.067-07:002016-07-07T18:48:42.067-07:00Jim, Pema Chodron would concur! I often feel that ...Jim, Pema Chodron would concur! I often feel that if everybody focused on their responses rather than what others are doing, it would be a different world indeed. I tell people that I have a 24 hour job negotiating how I want to be in the world. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737992571206851964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-17562411858815539152016-07-07T18:47:14.254-07:002016-07-07T18:47:14.254-07:00I agree with what you say, and this is why the con...I agree with what you say, and this is why the constant work for me is deciding on MY response, despite the obvious, accepted, or culturally sanctioned. My main goal is attending to my emotional health, and secondly to be a model of the same for others. This is not dependent on trends, so I try to ignore them--as I don&#39;t see many benefitting from following them. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737992571206851964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-82437609452751057702016-06-30T05:40:09.495-07:002016-06-30T05:40:09.495-07:00When I heard about the Orlando tragedy I thought a...When I heard about the Orlando tragedy I thought and felt so far-removed from it initially. It was yet another massacre committed by some terribly disturbed individual.<br />In a couple of days I began to feel that I was &#39;part&#39; of what happened in exactly the same way you have elaborated here, Tony. Which &#39;wolf&#39; do we feed on a regular basis? Luckily for me, you and others we feed the compassionate one! Those poor souls who don&#39;t......Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11199777195853274898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-83258494274530472762016-06-27T17:25:17.566-07:002016-06-27T17:25:17.566-07:00Perhaps it&#39;s wrong to contextualize after the ...Perhaps it&#39;s wrong to contextualize after the fact, especially as you wrote this almost ten days ago. I wonder how one is meant to choose the wolf to feed when there is such a stubborn, naive, hypocritical and unjustifiable status quo in terms of gun control. This issue is the universal one, and yet conservatives and bigots would rather swallow their vomit over homosexuality in order to avoid the debate. In addition to this, the media tries to convince us that as a result of this shooting, the LGBTQ community is buying guns in droves. Perhaps there is a time when we simply have to accept that irrational acts result in irrational reactions, and that the collective ignorance disguised as individualism that defines our modern culture has anesthetized the ability to feel or to understand the importance of the exploration of feeling. Everything seems regrouped and hashtagged. Evolution can be unkind. truthshallrulehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14616511626207076147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-38656512718214809912016-06-18T17:58:04.739-07:002016-06-18T17:58:04.739-07:00I had one person &quot;scold&quot; me for making a...I had one person &quot;scold&quot; me for making assumptions, but are we all not going on assumptions at this point? I tried to make the focus on my response to what happens in the world, less so on what happened. There are plenty of people commenting on that already!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737992571206851964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-69990555248314979932016-06-18T17:56:36.650-07:002016-06-18T17:56:36.650-07:00I have been known to court folly from time to time...I have been known to court folly from time to time at my own peril. It is a process that continues. Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737992571206851964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-46182153456244267222016-06-18T13:59:08.307-07:002016-06-18T13:59:08.307-07:00Thank you for giving a rational take on an irratio...Thank you for giving a rational take on an irrational situation. I&#39;ve been seeing far too much pettiness, hate, and division. It&#39;s refreshing to know that you&#39;re not playing the blame game.<br /><br />My own comments concerning the Orland tragedy have recently been deleted from two blogs. This isn&#39;t the time for intolerance.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619128793632680659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178028168770339652.post-37350155387920768602016-06-18T11:01:01.434-07:002016-06-18T11:01:01.434-07:00Brilliant.
Your approach reminds us to not forget ...Brilliant.<br />Your approach reminds us to not forget we all had Shadow and Light. It is never us vs. them. We can not polarize and split others or ourselves. It&#39;s easier to do but folly to do so. <br />Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.com